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"If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl!? You must have me mixed up with THAT dork!' and point to another father."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I wish there was a disease where you're afraid of clouds, because I think I could cure it. First, you sit the patient down and have a long personal talk. After that, I'm not sure, but maybe you could throw some water in his face or something."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."	Benjamin Haydon
"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."	Garth Henrichs
"Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church; they suspect and dislike the clergy: they are impatient of theological systems; but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection."	Herbert Hensley Henson
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."	Napolean Hill
"Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage."	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."	Victor Hugo
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."	Daisaku Ideda
"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."	George Jackson
"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."	Franklin P. Jones
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return."	Franz Kafka
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."	Helen Adams Keller
"Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you."	Thomas à Kempis
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."	Jean Kerr
"hy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?"	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"	Stephen Levine
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1 Timothy 6:11 Bible	Adel Bestavros	Alain
André Gide	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Arnold H. Glasgow
Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Haydon	Bible
Clive Staples Lewis	Daisaku Ideda	Dr. Samuel Johnson
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edmund Burke	Elizabeth Montagu
E(li) Joseph Cossman	Franklin P. Adams	Franklin P. Jones
Franz Kafka	Garth Henrichs	George Jackson
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon	George W. Cecil	Hal Borland
Harrison Ford	Helen Adams Keller	Herbert Hensley Henson
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Fontaine	Jean Kerr	Jerry Coleman
Jesse Louis Jackson	Jim	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
John B. Gough	John Dryden	John Quincy Adams
Joseph Addison	Leonardo da Vinci	Les(ter Louis) Brown
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Martin Luther	Napolean Hill
Neill MacRae	Olga Brouman	Peter Marshall
Phyllis McGinley	Proverbs 25:15 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saint Augustine	Sarah Brady	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton	Stephen Levine	Stephen R. Covey
Thomas Henry Huxley	Thomas à Kempis	Victor Hugo
Wayne W(alter) Dyer	William Shakespeare	William Edgar Borah
William H(oward) Gass	Woody Allen